Figure skating - US Nationals 2016
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Races senior US National Championships, hosted by the & ldquo; & rdquo Xcel Energy Center; Saint Paul in Minnesota, have opened with the short program reserved for couples of artistic and with the first act of the women's competition. Both segments of the race have not spared any surprises.
Friday 22 January 2016 9 minutes reading time
PAIRS OF ARTISTIC & ndash; Short program
It & rsquo; touched Tarah Kayne and Daniel O & rsquo; Shea play the part of the main protagonists. The couple stationed in Florida has had the better of the competition both on the technical and on the sum of the components of the program. The great merit of the students of Jim Peterson & egrave; It was to prevent smudging worthy of note on the technical side revealing a remarkable growth in the triple twist. The keystone is & egrave; for & ograve; detected l & rsquo; execution of high-profile of the triple salchow in parallel that of the triple lutz launched, elements which have proved decisive. For the & rsquo; occasion, Kayne and O & rsquo; Shea presented a new short program to the tune of "Take Me To Church".
Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim, the undisputed favorite of the eve, they had to settle for second money with a lead of two points from abundant lead. Fatal & egrave; revealed a fall on Knierim & rsquo; tough triple salchow in parallel, with an historically low rates of implementation. For the rest, the defending champions have distinguished themselves by the quality & agrave; the spiral of death and back outside of the triple lutz launched, but were not impeccable in & rsquo; run the triple twist, in & rsquo; occasion over-rotated.
In respect of the predictions of the vigil, the podium partial & egrave; It was completed by Marissa Castelli and Mervin Tran, & nbsp; who paid duty regarding the passage of vacuum Castles on salchow in parallel, made double instead & eacute; triple. Students of Richard Gauthier did not, however, revealed difficulties & agrave; the rest of the elements, among which the triple salchow launched and the best sequence of steps of the race.
The rest of the competition, was a stellar distance from the podium, & egrave; It was regulated by Madeline Aaron and Max Settlage.
SHORT PROGRAM RANKING
01) 69.61 - Tarah Kayne / Daniel O''Shea02) 67.35 - Alexa Scimeca / Christopher Knierim03) 64.12 - Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran04) 57.47 - Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage05) 54.20 - Jessica Pfund / Joshua Santillan06) 51.09 - Erika Smith / AJ Reiss07) 50.53 - Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu08) 45.67 - Caitlin Fields / Ernie Utah Stevens09) 45.04 - Brianna de la Mora / Maxim Kurdukov10) 42.56 - Alexandria Shaughnessy / James Morgan11) 42.05 - Cali Fujimoto / Nicholas Barsi-Rhyne12) 38.34 - Elizaveta Usmantseva / Matej Silecky13) 32.14 - Alyssa McDougal / Paul Schatz
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SECTOR FEMALE & ndash; Short program
Polina Edmunds, taking advantage of the relevant steps to empty the favorite Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner, may have set the stage for success on the eve not budgeted. The seventeen year old Californian has, in fact, built up an advantage next eight points on pi & ugrave; immediate pursuers by creating a vacuum on the technical side and managed to keep the wake of pi & ugrave; qualified compatriots on program components. Edmunds & egrave; It was one of the few athletes in the race to run a test without smudging, ennobled by a combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, which, on balance, you & egrave; It proved crucial.
Gracie Gold, second in the standings, started the program in the worst way on the plate leaving the serious points of the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, not executed. L & rsquo; pupil of Frank Carroll, victim of a non sporadic blackouts, opened in flight the lutz completing a single rotation, but then had the & rsquo; foresight to improvise a combination triple flip / double toe loop in the second half & agrave; music, all things essential to go to the post d & rsquo; honor.
Next, in close contact with Gold, you & egrave; placed the new pupil Kori Ade Tyler Pierce, author of a combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop and a fine triple Rittberger preceded by step.
The defending champion Ashley Wagner paid duty on the initial combination triple flip / triple toe loop, ended with a ruinous fall and short rotation. However, the best overall response to components of the program allowed the veteran long-time to keep the wake of Gold, that is miserable nine basis points.
Overall, the segment of the race & egrave; It was marked by numerous steps to empty, which involved both the athletes more & ugrave; titrated to the second lines. Rare were the exceptions.
Gold and Wagner aside, the main disappointment of the day are named Courtney Hicks and Karen Chen, eleventh and twelfth respectively. For both, they have proved fatal falls on the dual combination jump and preceded by step.
RANKING
01) 70.19 - Polina Edmunds02) 62.50 - Gracie Gold03) 62.45 - Tyler Pierce04) 62.41 - Ashley Wagner05) 59.64 - Mirai Nagasu06) 58.85 - Mariah Bell07) 58.26 - Bradie Tennell08) 57.94 - Franchesca Chiera09) 57.86 - Hannah Miller10) 55.23 - Angela Wang11) 54.93 - Courtney Hicks12) 54.86 - Karen Chen13) 48.35 - Ashley Cain14) 46.94 - Katie McBeath15) 42.41 - Carly Gold16) 41.63 - Alexie Mieskoski17) 41.49 - Christina Cleveland18) 41.48 - Heidi Munger19) 41.27 - Avery Kurtz20) 38.22 - Elena Pulkinen21) 36.34 - Maria Yang22) 33.24 - Alexis Gagnon
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